Frankenstein
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- Mary Shelley's Bio
- Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London, England Mary Shelley's mother was the famous feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Mary Shelley's mother died shortly after her birth, and her father, William Godwin, was left to care for her.
- Mary began her relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814. He was a poet and one of her father's students. Percy was still married when he began his relationship with Mary and ran away with her. The couple traveled around Europe for a short time, and Mary wrote about their adventures. Their marriage was filled with adultery and grief with the death of three of their children.
- Background on Frankenstein
- The idea for Frankenstein was born one rainy summer night in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband and their friend Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori, when they were having a ghost story competition. Mary Shelley first published the novel in 1818 anonymously and then put her name to it five years later. Although it was not the first gothic novel, it is considered one of the most famous pieces of gothic literature from this time period.
- The two main pieces of literature Mary incorporates into her work are Metamorphoses by Ovid and Paradise Lost by Milton. The major element Mary used from Ovid was his presentation of the Prometheus legend.
- Romantic and Victorian Era
- The Romantic Movement originated in Germany with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the late 1700s. The Romantic movement was a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment, with its emphasis on empiricism, reason, and rationality. Romanticism's most important features are the power of nature, its juxtaposition of the beautiful and the grotesque, and its emphasis on the struggle of the individual against society, which all influence Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. The Victorian era was the time of the world's first Industrial Revolution, political reform and social change. Although Frankenstein falls short of this time period there are still some Victorian era underlying themes.
- In 1819, she gave birth to Percy Florence, who was her only child to reach adulthood. In 1822, her husband drowned while sailing. She worked hard to support her son but would later die in 1851 from brain cancer. Her most famous work became Frankenstein.
- The major theme from Paradise Lost is the parallel of Victor Frankenstein, playing God, resembling Satan from Milton's work.
- The people of the Victorian Era were very interested in wealth and new knowledge. Their whole society was very class-based, meaning that success and wealth was entirely dependent on family background.
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